LHC CJ for steps against climate change

Lahore

Lahore High Court Chief Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah has stressed the need to meet the global climate change challenges and highlighted that Pakistan is among the most vulnerable countries facing climate risks. He mainly emphasised that climate change would have significant impacts on human migration. He said that there was an urgent need to address the threats that climate-related migration posed to human security and well-being.

He expressed these views while addressing the Third Asian Judges Symposium on Law, Policy, and Climate Change which was hosted by Asian Development Bank (ADB) jointly with the Supreme Court of the Philippines and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Manila.

The LHC CJ pointed out that an effective international guiding framework with a clear mandate for responding to the climate change-related migration needed to be visualised.